ten years ago.

26 Jan 2012

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December 2001: I had the opportunity to house sit for my old college advisor over New Year’s, out near my old alma mater. I said yes. I’d just been dumped a bit unceremoniously by someone up where I was pursuing my doctorate, and I’d just been home for the holidays — never an easy place to navigate when all you want to do is hide under the covers and watch Law and Order marathons on cable — and the idea of being holed up in an entirely different, and emptied out, collegetown for a week seemed ideal. So armed with a camera, five rolls of film, and two bottles of state-run-liquor-store-stock white wine, I decided to cheer myself up via a three-day photo shoot with the Nikon and its self timer function. Around midnight on December 31, 2001, I toasted to new leaves, the end of dating, and all the things one toasts to when one is faraway from the madding crowd.-

Also, the house had cable TV, and wouldn’t you know it: on New Year’s Day I woke up to an all-day Law and Order marathon.-

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Goodness me: Look at those bangs! What the heck was that hat I was so enamoured with?! Such sad faces! I’m like a bizarre cross between Amelie and the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo woman (dude, look at my arms! I used to have guns). Memory Lane is very, very surreal.

I live in Brooklyn, NY. I sometimes think about moving to Berlin. I used to shoot 99% of the time with film. Now that I have a Leica M9, there's a bit more digital in my life, but I don't plan on abandoning film anytime soon.

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